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Honestly, I don't really have anything against the name Destiny, or the names of her siblings (though Spencer sounds a little dry to my ear). It doesn't sound tacky to me. Really, I'm sick of hearing people bash it while blithely endorsing or ignoring pretentious names like Freya-Anais.

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Edited to extend my rant, (lol):
What irks me is that people who find Destiny tacky don't seem to have a really precise reason. It's not that they don't like any word names (in fact they might be quite fond of River or Iris or even something as outré as Apple or as contrived as Lily-Rose); it's not even that they don't like abstract concepts as names (there's certainly nothing tacky about Grace, and Verity and Honor may pass muster as well); it's just that there's something "trashy" or "stripperish" about Destiny, and its cousins Genesis and Charisma. It reeks of classism to me--because it was popular among the lower classes without ever much passing through the upper classes (more often the trend is reversed), Destiny is endlessly and undeservedly trashed. I'm so sick of the snobbery that clobbers Destiny so often in naming discussions.

This message was edited 8/23/2007, 6:09 AM